VR museums platform backed by £5.6m government funding

This article was first published by Museums and Heritage. A £5.6 million project to develop a virtual reality museum platform has been unveiled today. The Museums in the Metaverse project is hoped to allow both professionals and amateurs to become “virtual curators”, building virtual and mixed-reality environments which can include 3D-scanned objects from collections. Online […]

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UNESCO planning virtual museum of stolen cultural artefacts

This article was first published by artnet. “The project aims at designing the first virtual immersive reality museum of stolen cultural objects at a global scale. It will contribute to raising awareness among the general public to the consequences of illicit trafficking of cultural property and contribute to the recovery of stolen objects,” reads a […]

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You can now renew or apply online for 2024 ICOM UK membership

You can now renew or apply online for 2024 ICOM UK membership. If you were a member of ICOM UK in 2022 and/or 2023, log into your account on the ICOM UK website to renew your membership for 2024 and receive your 2024 sticker before the new membership year starts on 1 January 2024. If […]

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Media coverage of missing objects ‘misleading’, says MA director

This article was first published by the Museums Association. Recent coverage of objects missing from museum collections is “misleading and damaging”, the director of the Museums Association (MA) has said. Collections management has been under scrutiny following the announcement in August of alleged thefts from the British Museum. Since then, Freedom of Information requests by […]

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EU countries approve Cáceres Declaration for culture to become the 18th SDG

This article was first published by The Diplomat in Spain. The Ministers of Culture of the European Union approved at a meeting in September the Cáceres Declaration, by which they commit to defend culture as “an essential public good and a global public good at the highest political level” and to work to make it […]

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Societal collapse is underway and museums can be unlikely heroes, suggests expert

This article was first published by Phys Org. “Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat” unflinchingly examines the possibilities of societal collapse, resulting global scenarios and hopes for an evolving community-centered practice. Concisely breaking down concepts and theories, Robert R. Janes Ph.D. intentionally conducts this conversation beyond the field of museum and heritage practitioners, […]

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Lansio Tŷ Atgofion Cymru i gefnogi cymunedau Cymraeg

Mae ap sy’n cynnwys atgofion o Gymru, Cymry a’u cymunedau wedi lansio yn Senedd Cymru, gyda’r nod o gysylltu, ymgysylltu a gwella bywydau pobl Cymru sy’n byw gyda dementia a’u hanwyliaid ledled Cymru a thu hwnt. Mae House of Memories Cymru yn rhaglen ddwyieithog o weithdai, hyfforddiant ac yn becyn ap atgofion digidol cyntaf o’i […]

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